Schools in the UK city of Birmingham are discriminating against non-Muslim students, practice forced sex segregation and invite extremists to promote Islamic values among the children, says an official report leaked to The Telegraph.

The report released by the inspectors from the
Department for Education focuses on three Birmingham’s schools,
including Park View School, a secondary school with an academy
status, Golden Hillock School, also an academy and Nansen Primary
School.

The Park View School practiced forced sex segregation as
“boys [were] sitting towards the front of the class and girls
at the back or around the sides” despite the school’s claims
that such separation was voluntary, says the report.

“Students told us they were required to sit in the places
which they were given by teachers,” add the inspectors,
saying that this method (of sex segregation) is considered to be
“non-compliance with the Equality Act” and is “less
favorable treatment for girls.”

The school was missing many “un-Islamic” elements from
the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) syllabus
and the subjects were formed “to comply with conservative Islamic
teaching.”

Park View also encourages to “begin and end each lesson with
a prayer.” The call for prayer was broadcast via
loudspeakers across the school, says the report.

School officials at Park View have invited Sheikh Shady
al-Suleiman, an extremist preacher “known to extol... the
stoning of homosexuals, anti-Semitic views [and is] sympathetic
to Al-Qaeda,” according to the report.

"Non-Muslims" have to teach themselves

Golden Hillock school banned any discussion of sexual orientation
or intimacy, a move which highly affected “the broad and
balanced teaching of many subjects, including art and English
literature.”

Christian and non-Muslim students also suffered discrimination,
add the inspectors as many Christian students at school “have
to teach themselves” in one GCSE subject after the teacher
“concentrated on the students who were doing the Islamic
course.”

The only primary school among them was Nansen where
10-11-year-old children were not taught arts, humanities or music
while Arabic was a compulsory subject for all the children.

The biology classes at all three schools were also changed
according to Islamic values. The biology teacher “briefly
delivered the theory of evolution to comply with the
syllabus,” and explained to the children that “this is
not what we believe,” a child from one of the schools told
the inspectors.

“Topics such as body structure and the menstrual cycle were
not covered in class, though pupils needed them for the GCSE exam
. . . students told us that as Muslims they were not allowed to
study matters such as reproduction with the opposite sex,”
wrote the inspectors.

According to the report, all three schools were in reality ruled
by Tahir Alam, a chair of governors at the Park View School
academy and a leading activist of the Muslim Council of Britain.
Alam had an “inappropriate day-to-day role in the running of the
schools” and received undeclared payments from them as a
“consultant,” the report says.

“Rude and dismissive” attitude towards ‘non-Muslim staff’

Meanwhile, the schools also reorganized their teaching staff
according to Islamic standards. According to the report, school
chiefs filled leading positions at schools with close relatives,
who had no teaching experience. So teaching standards as well as
children’s safety were put at risk, says the report.

Female staff at one of the schools were also treated in a
“rude and dismissive” way.“"One of the senior
leaders [at Nansen] interviewed reported that she had never met a
governor or been invited to a governing body meeting, although
the male senior leader with similar responsibilities was invited
to every meeting,” says the report.

Park View’s non-Muslim executive head teacher, Lindsey Clark, had
been marginalized and reduced to a figurehead. The governors of
the school said that she was “was unaware of the names of
some of the more recent appointments to the senior leadership
team.” In March Clark said that Park View established an
“all-female madrasah” type of education, a specific type
of religious school or college for the study of the Islamic
religion. She retired at the beginning of April.

The governors at Nansen appointed the brother of a convicted
terrorist as a deputy head teacher. Razwan Faraz “was
appointed deputy only three years after [achieving] qualified
teacher status,” the report says. Faraz is an administrator
of the Educational Activists group, which is calling for an
“Islamising agenda” in Birmingham schools.

Meanwhile, the shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, is
prepared to attack those who promote religious values on secular
schools on Saturday.

“We cannot have narrow, religious motives which seek to
divide and isolate dictating state schooling. We cannot have head
teachers forced out, teachers undermined, curricula rewritten and
cultural or gender-based segregation,” he said at NASUWT
(National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers)
union conference in Birmingham.

In March, Birmingham city council started investigating the allegations that a group of
radical Muslims were attempting to islamize Birmingham schools. A
leaked letter to Birmingham City Council outlined a plan called
‘Operation Trojan Horse,’ which aimed at “taking
over” at least four schools in areas of the city with large
Muslim populations.

According to the letter, a group of radical Muslims was trying to
oust head teachers and secretly turn schools into Muslim
academies based on Salafi Islam principles. Salafis strictly
adhere to religious traditions of the seventh century rather than
21st century realities. The movement has been linked to some
terrorist groups around the world.

Alam, who was accused of being one of the plotters, said that the
letter was “a malicious fabrication and completely
untrue.”

The Department for Education and Birmingham City Council agreed
to investigate the letter, although West Midlands Police decided
that it was not a matter for them.

Meanwhile, the probe into Birmingham schools has widened.
According to the reports, released from Thursday, at least 25
schools in the city are now under investigation.